Why would anyone try to stop a violent assault on New York City subways now?
Zachary Faria
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New York City’s subway system continues to be infested with crime, which is unsurprising when the most high-profile prosecution involving the subway is targeting a man who tried to protect other passengers from a criminal.
Last week, 60-year-old Laurell Reynolds was brutally beaten by a man for about two minutes while waiting for the subway in Harlem. That man has at least nine prior arrests on his record, including for two separate assaults, and yet he was free to roam New York City and beat a 60-year-old woman with her own cane.
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Reynolds’s daughter is upset that no one intervened to protect her during the beating, but then again those people can hardly be blamed. When Daniel Penny intervened to protect passengers from a homeless career criminal who was threatening and harassing them, pro-criminal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg decided to try and put him in jail for up to 15 years. Bragg has tried more than once to criminalize self-defense and decriminalize brazen assaults. Of course, no passenger wants to risk that for someone they don’t know.
In a surprise to absolutely no one, the indefensible prosecution of Penny made the subway system less safe, with criminals being further emboldened by New York City’s weak criminal justice system while law-abiding citizens received the message, loud and clear, that they must shut up and take it. The prosecution of Penny began in May. In June, the subway system suddenly had a “bad couple of weeks” for violent assaults.
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In July, we learned that felony assaults had increased by 89% from 2013 to 2019 and then increased by an additional 150% from 2019 to 2022. Again, what exactly is one supposed to expect when career criminals with violent histories are treated with kid’s gloves by the criminal justice system while people simply trying to protect passengers have the book thrown at them?
New York City’s criminal justice system is, simply put, a failure. It’s failed Reynolds and other passengers who are simply trying to go about their everyday lives without being savagely beaten by thugs. It has failed Penny and others who seek to defend themselves or others from violent thugs. It has failed everyone, except the violent career criminals that the system now protects at the expense of normal people who are simply trying to ride the subway.